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I completely agree with everything you said! "Andy" was definitely a high point for me, loved the character and his arc. Something new with Alien universe Artificial Persons. The homages to Alien and the proto Aliens nods were great. A friend felt there was too much "fan service" but I thought...

My VEVOR 30L Ultrasonic Cleaner is approaching 4 years of sporadic use and I'm doing a water change now so I thought it might be interesting to create a thread to share my experience and hopefully hear from others too. Let's share recommendations, tips and tricks! I have a feeling this...

My Mac 512k internal and external 400k floppy drives were totally locked up. The original grease in these totally turns to glue and I was not getting anywhere with IPA. This "Dry Lube" did the trick for me: 3-IN-ONE Lock Dry Lube https://3inone.com/product/3-in-one-lock-dry-lube/ After...

Same! Excited to watch this!

I generally agree, but the PB 100 is apparently not a fixed current (A) draw device. The way I normally think about it the voltage of a power supply is what maters, the amperage is just a max that the PS can safely supply. No harm no foul to use a PS with a higher Amp rating as long it is above...

I believe the issue is more that the PowerBook could (will?) draw more current than its designed to support if you don't use the proper (limited to 2A) power supply.

I ended up buying one of those Farallon PN993 NetLINE 10/100 PCI cards just because. Perhaps unsurprisingly it seems to perform the same as @Androda's card.

I wonder if your VRAM SIMM sockets might have some oxidation? You could try some DeoxIT with a tooth brush scrub. (that helped my Q700 with a similar video issue).

Thanks for the data point!

Threads with some good info here, the second one in particular is a really nice looking modern recreation of the bespoke connector: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/pb-5xx-original-ac-adapter-re-cap-modern-replacement.38426/...

The MAC address OUI prefix (00:00:C5) on the card I got from you appears to match what Farallon was using for their real PN993 NetLINE 10/100 cards: https://www.ebay.com/itm/183693476592 That OUI prefix is now registered to "ARRIS Group, Inc." which I'm guessing is where Farallon's stuff ended...

@Androda Is it correct to assume that the Farallon 993v14 driver would work with any PCI Ethernet card based on the RTL8139? There aren't any vendor/manufacture checks, something like MAC OUI ranges? I was curious about your 3D printed "mounting tang", didn't know conductive plastic was a...

Results! Your new card certainly holds its own against the other 100Mb PCI cards! Certainly faster then the regular Apple CS II card! Reminder on the test environment from a few posts back, these tests were from/to my Raspberry Pi 4 "retro home server" running MacIPRpi (1Gbps Ethernet) with...

Turbo ... FrenchFry .... What an epic name! Your kids get a 10/10 for pet naming, no notes!

Ordered! I'll be curious to see how it compares to my other tests! As always, amazed and delighted by your work!

So I actually had one of these HD activity LEDs in a battery bombed IIci I had in the basement! I can use it in either my good Iici or Q700 but still want to build another. The right angle connector seems fairly unique, certainly other plain 2.54 spaced connectors can work but I wonder if it...

So some interesting results I think! The driver I used ("Apple Enet" extension, v2.4.2) for the "Apple Fast Ethernet 10/100BaseT Card" didn't work under Mac OS 7.6. For the "AsanteFast 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter Rev. B" I used this driver from Macintosh Garden. The hard drives I used for...

Could Macintosh Garden be rate limiting downloads? I might if I were them... Local network testing seems like it might be better able to reveal the upper bounds of a NIC's performance, to that end I did track down the AppleShare network speed testing tool I remembered stumbling across a while...

That is the power LED :-) The HDD activity LED is in the opposite top corner in the groove. I guess its actually the light pipe for the LED, on the inside of the case mine looks like this: I think the light pipe itself is sometimes missing or broken.

After looking at my SE FDHD and SE/30 for comparison where the original HDD activity lights are decidedly yellowish I think that's what I'll go with. However that Amazon product does have a multi-color option so I guess I can play with all 6 colors. :) Other tidbits in case others stumble...